The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987.
The Geoffrey Bilson Award is selected by a jury chosen by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Award winners must be Canadian authors, and the winning novel must have been published in the previous calendar year. Each year's winner receives a $1000 (C$) prize.
The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.
1988 - Carol Matas, Lisa1989 - joint winnersMartyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen LandsDorothy Perkyns, Rachel's Revolution1990 - Kit Pearson, The Sky is Falling1991 - Marianne Brandis, The Sign of the Scales1992 - no award1993 - Celia Barker Lottridge, Ticket to Curlew1994 - Kit Pearson, The Lights Go On Again1995 - Joan Clark, The Dream Carvers1996 - Marianne Brandis, Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada1997 - Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale1998 - Irene N. Watts, Good-Bye Marianne1999 - Iain Lawrence, The Wreckers2000 - deferred to following year2001 - Sharon E. McKay, Charlie Wilcox2002 - Virginia Frances Schwartz, If I Just Had Two Wings2003 - Joan Clark, The Word for Home2004 - Brian Doyle, Boy O'Boy2005 - Michel Noël, Good for Nothing2006 - Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man2007 - Eva Wiseman, Kanada2008 - Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton2009 - John Ibbitson, The Landing2010 - Shane Peacock, Vanishing Girl2011 - Valerie Sherrard, The Glory Wind2012 - Kate Cayley, The Hangman in the Mirror2013 - Elizabeth Stewart, The Lynching of Louie Sam2014 - Karen Bass, "Graffiti Knight2015 - Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Dance of the Banished2016 - Karen Bass, Uncertain SoldierGeoffrey Bilson Award Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA